“ But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. ”
But my people ... - See Psalms 78:10-11 , Psalms 78:17-19 . “And Israel would none of me.” Literally, “Did not will me;” that is, “did not incline to me; were not attached to me; were not dispo...
LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. Psalms 81:1-4 . A Festal Hymn, specially adapted for the old New Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new moon of Tishri, t...
would none of Me . had no mind for Me.
11. But my people hearkened not to my voice. God now complains, that the Israelites, whom he endeavored gently to allure to him, despised his friendly invitation; yea, that although he had f...
DISCOURSE: 638 GOD GIVING UP OBSTINATE TRANSGRESSORS Psalms 81:11-12 . My people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up. THE history of the Jews is not a...
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. Israel would none of me - לא אבה לי lo abah li, They willed me not, they would not have me for their God.
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto But my people would...
After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles ( Psalms 81:1-3 ) this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as memorials of their deliverance from Egypt ( Psalms 81:4-7 ). Fro...
Psalms 81:1-16 THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival, commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learni...
“If Thou Wouldest Hearken unto Me” Psalms 81:8-16 God wants our emptiness, which seems to Him like the gaping beak of the young fledgling, Psalms 81:10 . Give me room ! is his incessant appea...
This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
Reader! what saith thy heart to these charges? What saith thy experience to this awful giving up? Oh! Lord! do thou still keep, still preserve, and abide in thy love, for thou hatest putting away. Re...
But my people would not hearken to my voice ,.... Neither as exhorting them to the above duties, nor as promising the above favours; would neither hearken to the voice of the law, nor to the voice o...
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. Ver. 11. But my people would not hearken ] Here beginneth the second part of the psalm, which is objurgatory, and very sui...
My people would not hearken to my voice But turned a deaf ear to all I said. “Two things,” says Henry, “the Lord complains of; 1st, Their disobedience to his commands. They did hear his voice, and...
Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; ...
Or, did not assent to me, or acquiesce in me , or obey me , or my commands.
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Gittith .” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among...
Psalms 81:11-12 It cannot be doubted that very often when people get into wrong courses they think they shall be able to stop when they please. And this notion tends very much to quiet their consc...
We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tisri, or the new...
Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. A revelation of three great subjects I. True worship (verses1-5) 1. True worship is the highest happiness, which...
EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of Psalms 19:1-19 , Psalms 24:1-19 , Psalms...
A Joyful Salutation and God's Response. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the Philistine city of Gath,...
Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Deuteronomy 32:18 ; Exodus 32:1 ; Hebrews 10:29 ; Jeremiah 2:11-13 ; Jeremiah 7:23 ; Jeremiah 7:24 ; Proverbs 1:30 ; Psalms 106:12 ; Psalms 106:13 ; Zechariah 7:11